Week 114: Kandahar, Resupply

Kandahar
I honestly can't see Micro now without thinking about Spider-Man and the "guy in a chair" joke. Punisher has a guy in a chair!

We now have two individuals, Punisher and Micro, who are essentially outlaws at this point. Punisher is the violent vigilante, and Micro is our hacker in the underground lair. Arguably, I think Frank Castle, however, is truly the more overtly criminal of the two. Micro isn't so much running from the law as he is running from the corrupt side of the government, which is out to silence him for what he knows. Micro and Castle both have a similar end goal in mind, in that they want justice to be served, but as usual, the definition of that is ambiguous and up for interpretation.

I can understand why Castle has demons now, though, considering his actions in Kandahar.

I wonder now where Frank "The Punisher" Castle really has his origin story. Was it his actions in Kandahar that left him with clear PTSD and guilt for having followed through on those orders that were, in retrospect, illegal? Or was it the killing of his family in order to keep him silent? The answer is very likely a combination of the two things, with the greater weight being given to the killing of his family, because that was the thing that caused him to snap in the end.

The greater guilt for him, I would imagine, comes from him wondering what would have happened if he never followed those orders in the first place. Would they have just killed him, and would his family have been safe? I can only imagine the constant scenarios running through his head as he tries to come to terms with the death of his family. Now, seeing how Micro's family is still alive, though he's thinking he's dead and has protected them, could he or should he have done the same to protect his family? Did he even have the opportunity to do that?

And I was absolutely not sad to see Wolf get the shit beat out of him.

Did you know Rafi played Jefe in Three Amigos?

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I think this might be the weakest episode of the series so far. The Homeland Security team is acting like a bunch of children and it's really distracting from the overall atmosphere of the show. Madani, in particular, I understand, is focused on finding Zebair’s killer but she is still just an objectively bad agent in charge.

Why did it take her so long to ask if they could turn down the music? Why did it take so long for anybody on the team to consider picking up a cell phone and making a phone call? While I feel the remainder of the show has been pretty consistent in the intelligence of the characters, it almost feels as if they are intentionally making the Homeland Security gang incompetent. I know that they're trying to portray Madani as the best person for this job but if the point of comparison was Wolf then I don't know that anybody in charge of this field office has the best judgment when it comes to picking leadership.